# tambak
## English
### Etymology

From Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak).

### Noun

tambak (plural tambaks)
* In Java, a brackish pond for raising fish and growing rice.

### Anagrams

* maktab

## Bikol Central
### Alternative forms

* tumbok

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tam‧bak
* IPA: /tamˈbak/ [tamˈbak]

### Noun

tambák
* head; mound
    Synonyms: dagmang, tumpok

#### Derived terms

* magtambak
* tambakon

## Brunei Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tambak/
* Hyphenation: tam‧bak

### Noun

tambak
* stove (device for heating food), cooker

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈtambaʔ/ [ˈt̪am.baʔ]
* Rhymes: -ambaʔ
* Syllabification: tam‧bak

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay tambak (“embankment, dyke; banking, filling, levelling up, reclamation; causeway”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.
* Semantic loan from Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak, “fish pond; dyke”).

#### Noun

tambak (plural tambak-tambak)
* fish pond
* dyke, levee, banking, leveling
    Synonyms: tebat, gili-gili, tanggul, bendung
* brackish water

##### Derived terms

* bertambak
* bertambak
* ikan tambak
* jalan tambak
* kota tambak
* menambak
* penambak
* penambakan
* petambak
* petani tambak
* tambakan
* tanah tambak

### Etymology 2

From Malay tambak.

#### Noun

tambak (uncountable)
* black pomfret (Parastromateus niger)
* silver pomfret (Pampus chinensis)

##### Related terms

* bawal

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

tambak (uncountable)
* a snapper, of species Lutjanus vaigiensis

### Further reading

* “tambak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

tambak
* Romanization of ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀

## Malay
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

#### Noun

tambak (Jawi spelling تمبق, plural tambak-tambak, informal 1st possessive tambakku, 2nd possessive tambakmu, 3rd possessive tambaknya)
* embankment, dyke
* banking, filling, levelling up, reclamation (of low-tying land)
* causeway
    Synonym: koswe
    Tambak Johor-Singapura ― Johor-Singapore Causeway

##### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* penambak [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* penambakan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
* tambakan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
* menambak [agent focus] (meN-)
* ditambak [patient focus] (di-)
* tertambak [agentless action] (teR-)
* bertambak [stative / habitual] (beR-)

##### Descendants

* Indonesian: tambak

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tambak (Jawi spelling تمبق, plural tambak-tambak, informal 1st possessive tambakku, 2nd possessive tambakmu, 3rd possessive tambaknya)
* black pomfret (Parastromateus niger)
* silver pomfret (Pampus chinensis)

##### Related terms

* bawal

##### Descendants

* Indonesian: tambak

### Further reading

* “tambak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maranao
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak.

### Noun

tambak
* rampart

### Verb

tambak
* to heap

### References

* A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tambak. Compare Javanese ꦠꦩ꧀ꦧꦏ꧀ (tambak, “dyke”), Malay tambak (“embankment”), and Maranao tambak (“rampart”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /tamˈbak/ [t̪ɐmˈbak̚]
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: tam‧bak

### Noun

tambák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)
* heap; pile; mound (of earth, garbage, stones, sand, etc.)
    Synonyms: bunton, tumpok
* accumulation (as of official papers not acted upon)
* act of filling up of a low place (with earth, garbage, stones, sand, etc.)
    Synonym: pagtatambak
* embankment; terrace
    Synonym: teraplen

#### Derived terms

* itambak
* magtambak
* mapatambak
* matambak
* matambakan
* nakatambak
* pagtatambak
* panambak
* pantambak
* patambakan
* santambak
* tambakan
* tambakan ng basura
* tumambak

#### See also

* tabon

### Adjective

tambák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔ᜊᜃ᜔)
* (sports, colloquial) on a substantial point disadvantage against an opponent

### Further reading

* “tambak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tambak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI